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GABA ghoul posted:Lmao, I have never ever met anyone in my entire life who struggled to find 33.3cm on a tape or developed some kind of shortcuts or idiosyncratic units to deal with the number. The idea is absolutely insane. You just read the number you need on the measuring tape and move on with your life 33.3cm is not precisely one third of a meter
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Once there was a college chemistry lab. The professor asked the students "please divide the 1L of reagent evenly into two 500 mL flasks." One woman asked "what if you want 3 flasks?" The professor said "don't be silly, we don't do that." "But sir, if we had 1 gal of reagent, I would simply measure out 3 ⅓ quarts." The professor, destroyed, sat down and clutched his head crying while the class cheered her on. That woman? Betty Crocker.
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zedprime posted:Now that I have your true attention I'd like to bend your ear on my plan to liberate angles from the clutches of highly composite numbers or constructions requiring irrational numbers. gradians much>?
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i think we should abandon the current day system. there should just be two days: oneday and twoday, alternating forever. some people have onedays off and work twodays, some people vice versa. by law no one ever has to work both.
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Aug 25, 2023 17:30
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When I was in Kindergarten my teacher told us an inch is about the size of your thumb. I held onto this until my 20s when I realized my thumb has gotten bigger. That’s how little measuring matters
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Earwicker posted:i think we should abandon the current day system. there should just be two days: oneday and twoday, alternating forever. some people have onedays off and work twodays, some people vice versa. by law no one ever has to work both. This would destroy the friday vibe and I need that to survive
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Aug 25, 2023 17:36
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Saalkin posted:This would destroy the friday vibe and I need that to survive it would be like every other day is friday
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Aug 25, 2023 17:51
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Earwicker posted:it would be like every other day is friday completely idiotic notion. you've also destroyed the weekend single handedly. cease this line of thinking immediately. final warning.
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Aug 25, 2023 17:55
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:completely idiotic notion. you've also destroyed the weekend single handedly. cease this line of thinking immediately. final warning. every other day is friday and the day that isnt friday, is saturday. but also sunday. and friday is also monday, but then again, it's friday. and think about it this way: wednesday? eliminated. just loving gone.
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Aug 25, 2023 17:58
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i will admit that fahrenheit is easier to use for day to day temp measurements. industrially, they're indistinguishable, Sometimes you can get more precision by buying something that outputs degrees F instead of degrees C, without an increase in price.
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Aug 25, 2023 18:03
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One foot is actually the length of the king's dick.
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Aug 25, 2023 18:07
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numberoneposter posted:One foot is actually the length of the king's dick. can you share with us your data you have logged w/r/t the kings load and the stack he uses to achieve it?
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Aug 25, 2023 18:09
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honestly they shouldve h-bombed europe and moscow too back in '45
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The real problem is using a numeral system that has a base with only two prime factors. And neither of them are 3
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Aug 25, 2023 18:16
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:completely idiotic notion. you've also destroyed the weekend single handedly. cease this line of thinking immediately. final warning. What about a 4 day week, but every monday is a Holiday Monday. so it goes Monday (but whew, this one's a holiday!), Friday - hell yeah last day of the week, Saturday, Sunday
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Aug 25, 2023 18:25
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N. Senada posted:When I was in Kindergarten my teacher told us an inch is about the size of your thumb. I held onto this until my 20s when I realized my thumb has gotten bigger. Still useful for measuring your dilz though
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Aug 25, 2023 18:37
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wait it’s really called customary and imperial and not standard and metric? 
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AARD VARKMAN posted:33.3cm is not precisely one third of a meter What kind of home repair do you need to do if you need accuracy down to less than a thousandth of a meter??
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DrSunshine posted:What kind of home repair do you need to do if you need accuracy down to less than a thousandth of a meter?? Shade-tree Cybertruck mechanic.
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US units are dumb but also have never led to confusion in my day to day non science use. A mile is a feeling of distance imo, yeah its a weirdly uneven amount of feet, but Im not visualizing a mile by breaking it into smaller units, something just feels ~about a mile~ Also I didnt know it was called customary units so thats cool. Just always said imperial. Cant wait to push up my nonexistent glasses and "well actually" when the opportunity arises. Fahrenheit is better tho.
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Aug 25, 2023 19:50
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a mile that goes uphill is a lot longer than a flat mile
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numberoneposter posted:a mile that goes uphill is a lot longer than a flat mile A mile that goes uphill is a lot longer than a kilometer that goes up hill.
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Aug 25, 2023 20:10
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Walk a mile in these shoes pal
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Uriah Heep posted:US units are dumb but also have never led to confusion in my day to day non science use. A mile is a feeling of distance imo, yeah its a weirdly uneven amount of feet, but Im not visualizing a mile by breaking it into smaller units, something just feels ~about a mile~ It's not an inherent property of a mile as a measure of distance. If you grew up in Europe you could likewise fairly accurately say that this distance is about a kilometer
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Grey Cat posted:A mile that goes uphill is a lot longer than a kilometer that goes up hill. my dick is a mile long, do u know how many inches that is, loser? Sekenr posted:It's not an inherent property of a mile as a measure of distance. If you grew up in Europe you could likewise fairly accurately say that this distance is about a kilometer Im aware of that. Im just saying that as a response to people that are criticizing the mile because of the awkward number of feet its made up of, which imo is irrelevant in most day to day cases. This is true of any measurement in a conversational sense, I can intuit about a foot, a yard, mile, ounce etc because Ive been immersed in this mode of units for my lifetime, same of which is true for those who use metric.
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We don't have any good measurement system that handles division into 7ths very well. We should work on that first, IMO.
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Uriah Heep posted:my dick is a mile long, do u know how many inches that is, loser? Im going to guess a mile is roughly 3 inches you know what they say, it's not how long a mile is it's how fast you do it.
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Aug 25, 2023 21:39
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This thread is about 2 golden retrievers too long
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Uriah Heep posted:US units are dumb but also have never led to confusion in my day to day non science use. A mile is a feeling of distance imo, yeah its a weirdly uneven amount of feet there is nothing "uneven" about the number 5280
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it was a photo finish, he won by a hare's length
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Earwicker posted:there is nothing "uneven" about the number 5280 I have trouble visualizing how far that is without a conversion into number of football fields (I'm American)
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One football field = half mile
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An acre is one square football field
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everyone always talks about football field length, but nobody talks about football field girth
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Aug 25, 2023 22:21
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numberoneposter posted:everyone always talks about football field length, but not football field girth
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the speed of light is faster than a dog
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Also wasn't it called Imperial? We should go back to that. It makes me feel like a BIG MAN 
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I used to work on a large vertical mill aka .250 of an inch was to take it in by 250 (thou implied). I thought millinches was mils was its own thing that's the same thing. N. Senada posted:When I was in Kindergarten my teacher told us an inch is about the size of your thumb. I held onto this until my 20s when I realized my thumb has gotten bigger.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:An acre is one square football field
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imperial is easy. 10 inches to the foot, 10 feet to the teft, 100 feet to the mini-mile, 1000 feet to the mile, 10,000 ft to the lightyear, 100 lightyears to the parsec. EASY
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